Voting Behavior And The Media

Question 1

What is the rational choice model

Answer 1

Voters behave like consumers, on what’s most beneficial to them as an individual

Question 2

What percentage of the population are AB voters

Answer 2

Less than 10%

Question 3

How many votes does a candidate have to have won by to warrant an automatic recount

Answer 3

Less than 1000 votes

Question 4

At what age does a labour voter become a conservative voter

Answer 4

Age 39

Question 5

What percentage of the country are member of a political party

Answer 5

4%

Question 6

When did Jeremy Corbin become leader of labour, how many member did he gain, how old were they, what was this called

Answer 6

2015, 600k, under 40, momentum movement

Question 7

What is the average age of a Conservative Party member

Answer 7

67

Question 8

When was labour formed and why?

Answer 8

1900, from trade unions to represent workers and interests

Question 9

Between 2010 and 2019, how much did conservative support in Yorkshire increase and labour support in Scotland decrease?

Answer 9

18.8%, 20.3%

Question 10

When did labour introduce the race relations acts

Answer 10

1965,68,76

Question 11

In 2017, the conservatives won what out of how many of the most ethnically diverse areas

Answer 11

5/75

Question 12

Which tv channels are bound by ofcom

Answer 12

BBC, itv, channel 4&5, sfc

Question 13

Tv is the main source of news for what percentage of the adult population

Answer 13

79%

Question 14

In the 2016 eu referendum, pro leave newspaper outnumbers remain by how many readers?

Answer 14

3 million

Question 15

In 2010 after the leaders debate, nick clegg experienced what percentage increase in support, but what percentage increase in seats

Answer 15

24%, 1%

Question 16

In 2019, what percentage of young people voted conservative compared to labour?

Answer 16

21%, 56%

Question 17

2019, what percentage of older people voted conservative compared to labour

Answer 17

67%, 14%

Question 18

In 2015, how may young people didn’t vote

Answer 18

15.7 million , outnumbering those who did

Question 19

In 1979, what percentage of ABC1 voters voted conservative? What percentage of DE voters voted labour?

Answer 19

59%, 49%

Question 20

AB and C1 voters are what percentage of the population?

Answer 20

Less than 10%

Question 21

In 1964, what percentage of people said the felt strong party loyalty, compared to what percentage in 2005

Answer 21

44%, 10%

Question 22

In 2010, what percentage of ABC1 voters voted conservative, compared to what percentage of DE voters that voted Labour?

Answer 22

39%, 40%

Question 23

In 2019, how many seats I’d the conservatives and labour gain?

Answer 23

365, 202

Question 24

In 2019, what was the conservatives net change in seats

Answer 24

+48

Question 25

In 2015 and 2019, men votes conservative more than women by what percent?

Answer 25

2%, 9%

Question 26

In 2005, the conservatives held what percent lead in c of e voters

Answer 26

9%

Question 27

What percentage of non white voters backed labour in the 2017 election compared to what percentage that backed the conservatives

Answer 27

76%, 17%

Question 28

Following the Iraq war in which year, in 2005, tony Blair still had a wheat percentage lead of micheal Howard (c) and Charles Kennedy (ld)

Answer 28

2003, 15%

Question 29

In which years did tactical voting favour new labour and Lib Dem’s?

Answer 29

1997, 2001

Question 30

In 2001 and 2010 the elections were presented as boring, what was the turnout for these elections

Answer 30

65.1%, 59.4%

Question 31

In 2010, what percentage increase of sun readers were in support of the toriles, causing the sun to change who they were backing

Answer 31

13.5%

Question 32

In the 1st leaders debate in 2010, how many viewers did it get

Answer 32

9.6 million

Question 33

1997 election results

Answer 33

Labour 418,

Question 34

Why did conservatives lose 1997 election

Answer 34

• no one likes John majors
• black Wednesday
  People hadn’t financially recovered
  Sexual and financial scandals
  Labour led good campaign
  New labour

Question 35

How many donations did labour receive in the 2024 election. Who was the biggest donor

Answer 35

£9.5 million - more than all the other parties combines
Lord Sainsbury’s biggest donor